A political reading of the 1980 (same year the artist was born) Abba song, The Winner takes it all, is the point of departure of this exhibition, that comprises a series of enlarged polaroids and an installation.
“Winner’s Gallery” ironically substitute trophies for plastic bags. Fourteen carefully studied poses (mostly conflating references from art history with protests) are performed for the camera. A complex vocabulary emerges from the precarious, yet powerful images, where winning is equated to surviving. Bags as trophies are also the subject of the untitled installation, a 5 x 5 meters floor piece of the typical portuguese pavement stone, arranged as if the ground was contained in the transparent bags, a giant prize awaiting to be taken.
matheus rocha pitta 